Prof. Dr. Heribert Hirte, LLM (Berkeley)

Chair for Civil Law, Trade and Company Law, Commercial Law

Address

Universität Hamburg

Faculty of Law

Rothenbaumchaussee 33

20148 Hamburg

Office

Rechtshaus

Room: A309

Office hours

by appointment

Contact

Tel: +49 40 42838-4577

Fax: +49 40 4273-10070

Email: heribert.hirte"AT"jura.uni-hamburg.de

Secretary's office

Nicola Heinrichs

Secretary of Prof. Dr Heribert Hirte and Prof. Dr. Claudia Schubert

Rothenbaumchaussee 33

20148 Hamburg

Room: A308 (Prof. Dr. Hirte, Prof. Dr. Meyer), 3002 (Prof. Dr. Schubert)

Tel: +49 40 42838-9371 (Prof. Dr. Schubert) -3020 (Prof. Dr. Hirte, Prof. Dr. Meyer)

Fax: +49 40 4273-10070 (Prof. Dr. Hirte, Prof. Dr. Meyer)

Email: nicola.heinrichs"AT"uni-hamburg.de

Website

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CV

1977–82: studies at the University of Cologne
1978: bank internship in London
1979–80: studies at the University of Lausanne
1982–84: legal traineeship in Cologne, Speyer, and Milan
1988–89: LLM studies at the University of California in Berkeley
1985: doctorate at the University of Cologne
1994: Habilitation at the University of Cologne
Winter Semester 1993/94–Winter Semester 1999/2000: professor within the Chair for German and European Civil and Commercial Law at the University of Jena
1995–2000: deputy member of the Thuringian Constitutional Court
1999–2004: professor at the University of Luxembourg
Summer Semester 2000–present: professor at Universität Hamburg; managing director of the Trade, Maritime and Commercial Law Seminar
2001: visiting professor at Doshisha University in Kyoto and Korea University in Seoul
Winter Semester 2003/04–present: faculty member for the research doctorate in corporate law at Bocconi University in Milan
2006 and 2008: visiting professor at Bocconi University in Milan
Winter Semester 2010/11: declined a W3 professorship for civil law, trade law and company law at the University of Trier
February–April 2011: research stay at Fordham University, School of Law, New York
2013: elected as the direct candidate for the Cologne II constituency (WK 094) to the 18^thGerman Bundestag. Pursuant to Section 5 subsection 1 of the members of the German Bundestag act (Abgeordnetengesetz, AbgG), Prof. Dr. Heribert Hirte’s civil service contract has been suspended since this time; pursuant to Section 9 AbgG, he has continued to work at Universität Hamburg on a part-time basis (25 percent)

Teaching/examinations

civil law
trade law
social law
trademark, copyright, and competition law
comparative law

Fields of research

trade law
social law
insolvency law
capital markets law
comparative law

Public offices and functions

February 1994–present: member of the board of the German-American Lawyers Association; vice president since March 1999 (DAJV)
1996–2000: (founding) board member of the Thuringian working group for corporate and insolvency law; chairman, May 1999–March 2001
January 1997–present: member of the editorial team for the Zeitschrift für Unternehmens- und Gesellschaftsrecht; co-editor since January 2001 (ZGR)
Summer Semester 1997–Winter Semester 1999/2000: deputy spokesperson for the research training group “Opportunities for private law and public law management in European and international commercial law” at the University of Jena
May 1998–present: co-editor of the Zeitschrift für das gesamte Insolvenzrecht (ZInsO)
2002–present: member of the advisory board of the European Business Organization Law Review (EBOR)
Winter Semester 2001/02–present: member of the “Law and Economics” research training group at Universität Hamburg
2004–present: managing editor of the European Company and Financial Law Review (ECFR)
2004–present: member of the standing committee of the Deutscher Juristen-Fakultätentag; deputy chairman since 2008 (DJFT)
2005–09: member of the board of the European Law Faculties Association (ELFA); deputy chairman from 2006–07, chairman from 2007–08 (ELFA)
2006–present: member of the international editorial team of the Diritto fallimentare e delle società commerciali
2007–present: member of the academic advisory board of the Institute for Corporate and Capital Markets Law at Bucerius Law School, Hamburg (ICCML)
2008–present: co-editor of the DAJV newsletter (magazine of the German-American Lawyers Association, DAJV-NL)
2009–present: (founding) board member and deputy chairman of the Verein für Bank- und Kapitalmarktrecht in Hamburg e. V.; chairman since 2011

Dissertation supervision

Hamburg (PDF)
Jena (PDF)

Publications and Lectures

List of publications (PDF)
Lectures (PDF)—last updated: November 2020